straitjacket
英 [ˈstreɪtdʒækɪt]
美 [ˈstreɪtdʒækɪt]
n. 约束衣，紧身衣(有时用以束缚精神病患者); 束缚; 桎梏; 约束
BNC.20096 / COCA.22431
牛津词典
noun
- 约束衣，紧身衣（有时用以束缚精神病患者）
a piece of clothing like a jacket with long arms which are tied to prevent the person wearing it from behaving violently. Straitjackets are sometimes used to control people who are mentally ill. - 束缚；桎梏；约束
a thing that stops sth from growing or developing- the straitjacket of taxation
纳税的束缚
- the straitjacket of taxation
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (用以约束行为狂暴者的)约束服，紧身衣
Astraitjacketis a special jacket used to tie the arms of a violent person tightly around their body.- Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
他的行为偶尔会变得如此失控，不得不给他穿上约束服。
- Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
- N-COUNT 约束;桎梏;束缚
If you describe an idea or a situation as astraitjacket, you mean that it is very limited and restricting.- The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
国家课程设置必须是指导性的，而不是约束性的。 - ...the ideological straitjacket of religious fundamentalism.
原教旨主义对意识形态的束缚
- The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
英英释义
noun
- a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
- they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket
- the government is operating in an economic straitjacket
双语例句
- In order to circumvent the straitjacket of national wage rates, employers in many cities offer non-pecuniary rewards to their workers.
为了避免全国工资率的约束，许多城市的雇主不以金钱的形式付给工人报酬。 - This is going to decode the tragedy consciousness of the female images from the aspects of the old conventional straitjacket of Chinese tradition, shackles of desire and the delusion of fatality, which can contribute to the good understanding to Zhang Ailing's novels.
从传统的束缚、欲望的枷锁、宿命的虚无等三个方面解读张爱玲笔下的女性形象的悲剧意识，有助于理解张爱玲小说。 - Dean carried out tricks by breaking out of a straitjacket while dangling hundred of meters above the ground and successfully achieved it with admiration of audience.
最终，在观众的赞叹声中，迪安成功挣脱身上的束缚，安全回到地面。 - But these reforms conducted within the straitjacket of monetary union with Germany are causing political and economic turmoil.
但这类改革因与德国在一个货币联盟而受到严格约束却引发了政治和经济领域的动荡。 - And this collapse, in turn, had a lot to do with the euro, which trapped Greece in an economic straitjacket.
而希腊经济的崩溃，也与欧元有关&它把希腊拴在了一个经济牢笼里。 - But how can Greece accomplish this within the euro straitjacket?
然而，裹着欧元这件紧身衣，希腊怎么才能够做到这一点？ - One of the things that keeps the party in its straitjacket is the tea-party movement.
让共和党陷入这种困境的一个原因就是茶党运动。 - He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
他拒绝接受任何意商形态的束缚。 - Having seen finance wreak havoc, the temptation will be to bind it in a regulatory straitjacket.
由于已经目睹金融系统的大破坏，因此金融的诱惑将被严格管治。 - Joe Barton, a Republican congressman and global-warming sceptic, says it will put the American economy in a straitjacket.
乔•巴顿，共和党国会议员，全球气候变暖怀疑论者，称这将给美国经济穿上紧身衣。